The first was the Gay Liberation movement in which he contributed to the Gay History Group and the Gay

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The first was the Gay Liberation movement, in which he contributed to the Gay History Group and the Gay News Defence Committee, set up in 1977 to fight Mary Whitehouse's libel case against Gay News. The second, to the surprise of many, was his religious faith. An ardent Anglo-Catholic during his undergraduate years, Bray was first moved to train for the Anglican priesthood, a plan dropped after a year. In 1985 he converted to the Roman Catholic Church, and became the principal point of contact between Cardinal Basil Hume and Quest, the support group for homosexual Catholics in England.His final work, The Friend, delivered to the University of Chicago Press in the last weeks of his life, combines these two passions.

Pierre-Roland Giot, geologist, anthropologist and historian: born Carolles, France 23 September 1919; Director, Circonscription d'Antiquit?Pr?storiques 1947-72; Curator, Mus?Pr?storique de Penmarc'h 1947-86; Director, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Rennes 1951-86; died Rennes, France 1 January 2002. He liked writing in English and indeed his first book, on the prehistory of the Armorican peninsula, was Brittany, published in 1960 in Thames and Hudson's "Ancient Peoples and Places" series. It was not until 1979 that French readers had access to his two volumes dedicated to the prehistory of Brittany, Pr?stoire de la Bretagne and Protohistoire de la Bretagne.Most of his childhood was spent living near Paris; he was educated at the Lyc?Hoche at Versailles and at the University of Paris, where he achieved a brilliant licence ?sciences. His early interest in geology led him to move to the University of Grenoble, to carry out research into the geology of the region of Chamb?.

He had already become well acquainted, during his childhood, with Brittany, and later had carried out surveys of the monuments of La For?Fouesnant, and it was this subject that he made the focus of his doctoral thesis in Anthropology, "Armoricains et Bretons", presented at the University of Rennes in 1950.Although a geologist by training, Giot moved with brilliance and ease into anthropology before accepting first the post of Assistant Director, then Director in 1947, of the newly established service for prehistoric antiquities covering the seven departements of Brittany and the lower Loire Valley. He embraced archaeological research with the same enthusiasm as others embrace holy orders, organising not only the administration but also, in 1951, setting up a research laboratory at the University of Rennes for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (he was one of the youngest ma?es de recherche in the CNRS) and instituting a programme of field excavations.His interests were extremely wide. He was fascinated by the Celtic phenomenon, not hesitating to delve into the problems of Old Irish and, of course, the Breton language, which he understood. He also encouraged research in ethnography and in the monograph series "Travaux du Laboratoire d'Anthropologie", which he set up in 1957, he saw to the publication of the invaluable work of the late Ren?ves Creston on Breton costumes.From his first moments as director of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie in Rennes, Giot brought together a group of able young researchers. Giot realised that the best way to forge a team was to give it a common objective and the excavation of important French megalithic monuments provided the occasion.Of the work undertaken at this time, the excavation of the great cairn of Barnenez, near Morlaix, was the one of which he was the most proud.